Sentence examples for vow of devotion from inspiring English sources

Dancing is a holy act, a vow of devotion.

"When the Time Comes," which Mr. Petty said the band had not performed since 1978, has chiming Byrds guitars but shaky self-esteem; it's a vow of devotion that begins, "This might sound strange, might seem dumb".

Like "I Will Always Love You," the Dolly Parton song that became Ms. Houston's signature hit in 1992, "I Look to You" is a gospel-rooted ballad that builds up to a vow of devotion before humbly tapering off.

"How I Will Say I Love You," the most striking of Mr. DeSare's original songs, is a touching, abject vow of devotion stated calmly in words that are both protective and abject: Break the rules, I'll bend them around you Play the fool, I would never know Break my heart, I'd still be glad I'd found you For Mr. DeSare the hard work that transforms promise into success is paying off.

Her songs about eternal love and the pain of separation have, two decades later, become not just vows of devotion but invocations of nostalgia, longing and, for Iranians in North America, the pain of exile.

Like hatchings, the dispatchings caused by cancer give people like Kim and me a final trimester, more or less, in which we can labor to forgive and be forgiven, to speak and hear vows of devotion from our intimates, to visit or not be visited by acquaintances.

I just want to fuck, and it feels a bit premature for vows of devotion.

Individual noninstitutional and nonsacerdotal religious celibacy may be practiced by the layperson or the occasional clergyman in a faith not requiring celibacy who makes a vow to remain unmarried out of devotion or to allow the performance of some special religious service.